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PHYLANDER DANIELS, oFLERoY, NEW YORK.

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specification forming part of Letters Patent tomamos, dated Jun i4, 1864.

.To all whom/iz? may concern:

`Be it known that I, PHYLANDERDANIELS,

of Leroy, in the county of Genesee and State of New York,have invented a new and Improved Portable RailroadJSwitdh, the same being also applicable to the placing of cars i Von the track; and I do hereby declare that the following Ais a full, clear, and eiraot description of the same, reference being had to the'aeeompauying drawings, making apart of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a plan or top view of my invenlion, shownva-pplied to atrack as a means for 'placing c'ars thereon; Fig. 2, a plan or` topx view of the same adjusted to a Atrackl as av switch; Fig. 3, a section loffFig. 1,-t`aken in the line a: :r Figs.4 and'5, detached side views t ofthe timpriuipalrarts 0f iheierice shown,

in Fig. 1 Figs. 6 and 7, detached side views of the two principal parts of the device shown in Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in' the several iigur'es.

This invention consists in the employment .or use of two jointed bars provided with clamps and tted to the rails in such a inan-` nerv that the device may be used as a temporary switch Without disturbing the rails, and

applied at any point, ilo frogs nor any other v parts, except those pertaining to or forming a part of my invention, being required.

The invention is also applicable to the-placl ling or adjusting of cars ou the track, and may be applied to the rails with the greatest facility i to answer that end.

.loienable those skilled in the art to ,make and use my invention, lwill proceed to dcscrileit. 4 c v j `A` A represent two bars, which may be co'ustructedof ffwro'ught-iron-that at least would lie-preferable.' The bar A is oiM form, and it hast' a clamp, B, attached to it, said lclamp being composed lof aI wrought-metal plate boltedtransversely to the under side of -A and bentupward at each side and then downward, as shown at a in Fig. 3,s`o-as to lit over the rails of lthe track.

To the Vbar -there is connected by a joint,A

b, a taperor inclined bar, C, which is considerably longer than A. ,(See more particularly Fig. 4.) lvThe bar A is 'rather broader atits upper surface, b, than the .har A, but it has a 'l pivoted 'or V-shaped part, c, below b, like the v bar A.. Thebar A basa clamp, B', bolted to.

' track. The bars U C,when thus adjusted, are

secured .in position by bolts passing vertically through them land through =any of a series of holes made in bars EWE', which are bentat one end, e, to it over the rails similar to the' parts a of the clamps B B',

I n adjusting the car on the the rail, while the other wheel, which is oft' of lthe track between the rails, passes up the bar C and over the bar A upon the other rail. The top or upper surface, b, of the bar A projects over the raill to which it is applied, -in order to admit of the iiange of the wheel passing over the rail to the inner Vside of the same. The l upper surface of the bar A is iiush with the,A upper surface of the rail to which it is applied. On the rail which has the banA applied to it there is fitted, just back 'of said bar, a plate, F, which extends forward about one-half the length of A' at its inner side, so as to serveas a bridge for the back wheel ot' the car on the same rail and enable said wheel to pass ou the,

top part, b,ofA and clear the clamp B. The

front of b isinclincd, as shown in Fig.4,to i

allow the wheel to pass gently down on the rail.

' c -ln using the device as a temporary switch the bars() C are removed, and others, G G', y used instead. The bars G G are not inclined',

as they are-designed to match the rails of the turn-out or branch road. The bar G', which is attached to the bar A', is comparatively shut, and is secured in position by the bar E', as shown 'in Fig. 2. The bar G, however, Vex,- tends across the rail to which the barA is applied, and itis notched at its under side, as'

shown at a, so as totit on said rail and-'form a bridge, as shown in Fig. 2.

This device, lwhen used for Aeither the purposes herein set forth, may be applied to either quire.

c Y track the wheel? which', is oft' lait the .outer side ,of` the sanev passesup the bar C and over'the'I bar'Aupon' 'side of the track, as occasion may 're-A thev temporary switch will' be found very important, as temporary tracks are frequently vmade for hauling gravel from pits, earth, 815e.,

in red in Fig. 2. The cars on the main track may then pass along. The switch may also be, vwholly removed, if desired, as it can readily be taken upand applied to the rails.

v Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new,and desire to secure by Letters Pat-ent, is-

l. The two bars A A', constructed as shown, and provided with the clamps B B', in, combination with the bars C AC Gr G', either or f both pairs connected to the bars A Aby I joints andsecured in position, substantially as and for the purposes-set forth.

2. The plate F, when used in combination with the bars A A C C', for the purpose set' forth. s

PHYLANDER. DANIELS. Witnesses:

GEO. W. REED, p M. M. LiviNGSToN. 

